Clumsiest moment?

pianonurse · Sep 24, 2002

Tripping while walking towards the hopper with a full bedpan or urinal. Done that a couple of times.

Worst time, in my mind, was finally drawing blood from a person who was a difficult stick, and dropping the vial which broke and plattered blood all over the place. Didn't get the blood the second time around.

alwaysthere · Sep 24, 2002

had just finished placing a slightly confused LOL w/hip f/x in bed....co worker is explaining to her the importance of not getting out of bed and using the call light etc.. while i am arranging dressing supplies....co worker explains to her that she will falll and re fracture her hip if she dosent ask us for help...and wham i hit the floor ...tripped over a trash can..

mark_LD_RN · Sep 24, 2002

well am not very clumbsy but had a couple of episodesof it.

1) we had gotten new L&D beds .Just finished a delivery patient still upin stirrups, was attempting to put foot of bed back on , ithought i had it locked in place so i pushed on it .and ended up falling foward face first ended up on the floor very red and embarressed

2) i once turned to walkout of patients room and walked into edge of open door.boydid that hurt:)

micro, RN · Sep 27, 2002

uncoordinated and clumsy.........

never, never, never

:-)

micro "Washington"

caroladybelle, BSN, RN · Sep 27, 2002

One day in college, I was trying to impress a cute guy. I've always been too klutzy to excel at sports. So I was letting him teach me how to play pingpong.

I tripped over the leg of the table and fractured my ankle.

And let's not get into how I fractured my elbow and humerus (in 4 places no less) in ballet class!!!!!!!!

Allison S. · Sep 27, 2002

Hmm. Let's see. My favorite clumsy move at work has to be taking the spike out of a partially filled IV bag, and then leaving it hanging. If I'm really clumsy, it spills all over me! Haven't dumped it on a patient yet.

Personally, I'm torn between fracturing my patella on a trip to the post office, or fracturing my clavicle on aconvenience store run. And then there are the two times my GYN has asked me about bruises on my inner thigh that I can't explain. (I do have very long legs, and they are far away from my brain, so I don't always know what they are up to.)

Sometimes, I wonder if my patients and their folks are seriously scared of me!

Paris · Sep 27, 2002

I'm pretty clusmy too. Once while working at a law firm I had these big heeled shoes on and tripped; so to play it off I acted like I was trying to skip down the hallway. It was pretty funny. Then another time wearing those same shoes I tripped and fellover into the copy machine. These shoes are pretty hazardous. I've fallen many of times wearing them usually with an audience around. Another time I went to answer the phone b/c I was the receptionist and I wasn't paying attention and smacked it right into my forehead! I almost thought I knocked myself out b/c I was seeing black for a few minutes. Suprisingly there were no bruises. Just the other night I dropped a thing full of ice on me. I cleaned it up and preceded to drop another thing full of ice on me! I was pretty frustrated. I've had my fair share of clumsiness. Hahaha!!! :)

jode · Sep 27, 2002

Klutz??? Not ME!!!! Those dust balls are HUGE!!!!!!!!!!

mario_ragucci · Sep 28, 2002

When you make a clutzy move, or engage in spaz behavior, do you laugh at yourself, enjoy being laughed at by others or get angry with and pity yourself :-(

ktwlpn, LPN · Sep 28, 2002

Originally posted by mark_LD_RN
well am not very clumbsy but had a couple of episodesof it.
1) we had gotten new L&D beds .Just finished a delivery patient still upin stirrups, was attempting to put foot of bed back on , ithought i had it locked in place so i pushed on it .and ended up falling foward face first ended up on the floor very red and embarressed
2) i once turned to walkout of patients room and walked into edge of open door.boydid that hurt:)

Good thing that you ended up with your face on the floor-and not between ..those stirrups....Yech!LOL!!...Or imagine if you had flung a hand out to try to stop your fall? Grabbed hold of...well---best left unsaid...I am ROFLMAO right now....

Mofe'ny · Sep 28, 2002

I had a clumsy moment the other night. I was putting a baby back under a radiant warmer after letting mom hold her. It was the first time that mom had gotten to hold her and the baby was 3 days old. Well, the IV pole was in the way and as another nurse and I moved baby back, the IV pole fell over. Luckily teh wall was there and caught the pumps! Otherwise I would have been crying instead of laughing!

One of the day shift nurses dumped the code cart over one night while the neo was tubing a 23 weeker. Of course this happened at shift change so when we walked in the code cart is laying on its side. We had just gotten this code cart and it was the first 'attempt' to use it.

RNConnieF · Sep 28, 2002

Juts tipped myself out of the chair trying to wheel across the nurses station rather than walk. My hospital seems to have a number of high spots in the floors, I keep catching my toe on them. Come to think of it I have one high step at my house, I always fall up the steps at the same point. While I'm thinking about it, could we find a way to reroute IV tubing so I don't catch my foot in it, and can we change the tele monitoring system so I don't catch my stethoscope, name tag, med keys, earrings, hair, or ear in the wires? I respectfully request that my fellow nurses FULLY open the doors so that my lab coat will stop getting caught on it. Also, do not leave that litter or wheelchair there, I am tired of running into it. One more thing, the crash cart needs a new home, my right hip will need to be replaced next week if I hit it one more time. I am not clumsy, my environment and fellow staff seem to have it out for me. ;)